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71st Year No. 17 ( ittotl Morning! Ws Tnrstiay, October .?, I97M 14 laes 1 5 Cents
Legislators cool to M. U.' s budget request
By Rebecca Nappi
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The University's ap-propriations
request for the 1979- 198- D budget
reached Gov. Joseph Teasdale's desk Monday,
and the governor's office and legislative leaders
think the University is asking for too much.
The request, approved in August by the
University Board of Curators, asks for 15.9
percent more than last year. The University is
asking the state to increase by $ 21,853,118 the
amount it contributes to University coffers. The
University's overall budget calls for a
( 27,827,300 increase with $ 5,984,182 of that
money generated by non- sta- te funds, including a
controversial five percent student fee increase.
The total proposed budget for 1979- 198- 0 is
1235,207,818.
Gary Passmore, special assistant to the
governor, said the 15.9 percent increase is " sub-stantially
higher" than the expected increase in
general revenue next year. He said the
requested increase is " much higher than the
rate of inflation."
If the entire request were funded, " other vital
state services " would suffer, Passmore said.
Rep. Wayne Goode, chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, said the requested
increase is beyond what the general revenue
fund can handle. State revenue is expected to
increase 9 or 10 percent in 19791980, Goode said.
" It is difficult for me to see how we can have
an increase for any large state agency which is
in excess of the general revenue increase."
Rep. Steve Vossmeyer, D- S- t; Louis, whose
appropriations subcommittee reviews budgets
for colleges and universities, said the University
request is out of line this year.
" When inflation is the largest problem in the
country and with a taxpayer's revolt brewing, 15
percent seems a little much."
Vossmeyer was the prime mover last session
behind the $ 1.4 million in faculty improvement
funds the University received. The proposed
University budget calls for a 9.5 percent salary
and wage increase for faculty and staff. " I think
we treated them quite well last year. There's a
limit, however, and it sounds to me like that
amount ( a 15.9 percent overall increase) is
beyond that limit Vossmeyer said."
The Coordinating Board of Higher Education
must now review the appropriations request. It
will make a recommendation for Teasdale to
consider when he draws up the state's 1979- 198- 0
budget. The entire budget then will be submitted
to the General Assembly.
Guy Horton, director of University in-formation
services, said he had received no
feedback from legislators and did not anticipate
a budget cut to result from the review by the
Coordinating Board of Higher Education.
" We've still got a long way to go in this review
process and we'll be able to explain how the
budget meets the University's needs during
budget hearings," he said.
City Council OKs
Stephens Park
rezoning request
By Cameron Cohick
Misscarian staff writer
The City Council cleared the way
Monday night for at least some
development of Stephens Park.
By a 5-- 2 vote, the council approved
changing 14.3 acres ( 5.7 hectares) of
the area zoned for single- fami- ly use to
multi- famil- y residential and planned
commercial zoning. The council also
granted Stephens an amendment to its
master plan to allow commercial devel-opment
of 8.8 acres ( 3.5 hectares) near
the intersection of Broadway and
Business 63.
The rezoning decision, however, will
not go unchallenged by opponents of the
development, organized as Columbians
to Save Stephens Park.
On Sept 8, the group presented the ftS'SSSMins- -
rezoned. If valid, these petitions would
activate a city ordinance requiring the
votes of six council members for
passage.
After the rezoning passed with
negative votes from Third Ward Coun- cUwom- an
Diane Farish and Sixth Ward
Councilman Clyde Wilson, Mayor Les
Proctor, as chairman of the council,
had to make the decision whether to
accept the petitions' validity and
decided against them.
" The council is not a court and I am
not a judge," Procter said. " But the
chairman makes the decision, subject
to appeal. While the ordinance seems
clear to the layman, it has been clouded
by court cases." ' Proctor said that while the case
" might ultimately have to be decided in
the courts," he did not think the council
" should take any action to limit the
decision of the majority. I think five out
of seven is a healthy majority."
Karl Kruse, one opposition leader,
said after the meeting that the group
would challenge Proctor's ruling by
filing a suit in Circuit Court this week.
Kruse said the group would ask for
either a declaratory judgment or a
temporary restraining order.
The declaratory judgment would be a
ruling by the Circuit Court judge on
Proctor's decision. Attorney Tony
Vollers said the process probably would
take about six months. The judgment is
subject to appeal.
A temporary restraining order would
require a bond to be posted to com-pensate
Stephens if the opponents'
claim is not found legitimate. Kruse
said, " We may not have it ( the bond
money)."
Kruse said the opponents would meet
Tuesday with Vollers to decide which
course to take, adding that the group
probably would ask for a declaratory
judgment.
Of the five council members who
favored the rezoning, only new Fifth
Ward Councilman Ed Vaughan had
much to say in explaining his vote.
Vaughan said he had " a fair amount
of confidence" that Stephens would
control the architectural integrity of
the development He added that the
college easily could have sold the land
to a private developer, which would
have reduced the city's control over the
project
Wilson said be agreed that Stephens
has a right to develop its land or that
the college has no obligation to provide
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Eric Black, 1201 Paquin St., decorated his
wheelchair as a bulldozer to protest the rezoning
of the park land. Black said he wasn't surprised
by the council's decision to approve rezoning the
the city with a park. He said he also had
" no strong objections" to the
development proposed for the area, and
that it was " probably as good as any" if
the city is not able to keep it as a park.
But, on the negative side, Wilson
objected to being asked to make a
partial decision on " a total project"
referring to the developer's intention to
build the commercial and residential
portions of the development at the same
time.
Ms. Farish attacked the quick
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park land. " When all the trees are gone," he said,
" all the bulldozers will be nice and fat, but all the
people will be dead."
progress of the Stephens project, and
commended the slow, deliberate
progress of the Flat Branch project.
" I feel very strongly that we need
more planning," she said. " We have to
be more careful in our planning
process, especially the closer you get to
the downtown area."
Stephens needed the rezonings and
the amendment approval to lease 33
acres ( 13.2 hectares) of the 40- ac- re ( 16- hecta- re)
Stephens Park area, bounded
roughly by Broadway, Business 63 and
William and Windsor streets, to Clayton
developer Joe Morrissey. The
remaining seven acres ( 2.8 hectares),
now maintained by the city as Lions- Stephe- ns
Park, will be left untouched
for at least a year to allow the city a
chance to buy it.
Morrissey would build indoor and out-door
tennis and racquetball courts, a
restaurant and office buildings on the
8.8- ac- re ( 3.5- hectar- e) tract approved
See APARTMENT, Page 14)
No decision
in selection
of manager
After three hours of deliberation
ending at midnight Monday, the City
Council postponed a decision on
selecting a new city manager.
Mayor Les Proctor, who said no vote
was taken, said council members may
make a second trip to Battle Creek,
Mich., and Coon Rapids, Minn., to
conduct further interviews with the
finalists and their associates.
Proctor, however, set no time for the
visits or for a vote.
Gordon Jaeger, city manager of
Battle Creek, reached by telephone late
Monday night, said, " I don't have the
foggiest idea as to what the decision is.
But if you hear anything, call me back
and let me know. Yours is the first call
I've received all night."
John Cottingham, city manager of
Coon Rapids, said he " really couldn't
tell" whether he was expecting to hear
anything from the council Monday
night.
The council's discussion of the two
candidates was conducted in a closed
session following the regular council
meeting.
The announcement of a new
manager, which Proctor earlier had
said would be made Monday, was ex-pected
to end months of speculation and
secrecy surrounding the selection
process that began last July.
Califano assails
tuition credits
WASHINGTON ( UPI) HEW
Secretary Joseph Califano Monday
condemned a college tuition tax credit
proposal before Congress as an unfair
break for the wealthy and recom-mended
a presidential veto of the
measure.
Site of peace talks symbol of Carter's involvement
By Terry Smith
New York Times
WASHINGTON The decision to convene the
next round of negotiations toward an Israeli- Egypti- an
peace treaty in Washington, rather
than in the Middle East, symbolizes the central
role the Carter administration is continuing to
play in the implementation of the Camp David
agreement.
Having broken the ice between Israel and
Egypt with 13 days of intensive, summit- lev- el
negotiations last month at his Maryland moun-tain
retreat, President Carter seems now to
have concluded that an extra American shove
will be necessary to complete the negotiation of
the first formal treaty between the two nations
after 30 years of war.
The White House confirmed Monday that both
Israel and Egypt have accepted Carter's invita-tion
to open the talks here Oct 12. Secretary of
State Cyrus R. Vance will head the American
delegation; Israel and Egypt will be represent-ed
by their foreign and defense ministers.
Originally, the talks were to be held at an
agreed site in the Middle East under United
Nations supervision. But even before they
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began, Israel and Egypt got into a procedural
wrangle about the location.
Egypt proposed Ismalia, the city on the West
Bank of the Suez Canal where President Sadat
and Prime Minister Begin met last Christmas,
but Israel wanted to alternate the talks on a
weekly basis between there and Beersheba, the
Israeli town in the center of the Negev.
The Washington venue was a compromise put
forward by Alfred L. Atherton, President
Carter's special representative to the Middle
East, during meetings with both sides last
weekend. The idea was accepted readily, both
as a way to avoid an early deadlock and because
it suits the purposes of both sides.
The talks are expected to take several weeks
and American officials are under no illusions
that they will be easy. Despite President Car-ter's
repeated contention that " 95 percent" of
the obstacles to an Israeli- Egypti- an peace
agreement were resolved at Camp David,
several sensitive issues still have to be decided.
If all goes well, the White House indicated
Monday, President Carter will probably travel
to Egypt and Israel to participate in the treaty- signin- g
ceremony later this year. President
Sadat told an audience in Egypt Monday that
Carter had accepted his invitation for a visit
timed to coincide with the signing.
This kind of high profile American involve-ment
is something President Sadat and, to a
lesser extent Israeli Prime Minister Begin have
been seeking all along. Both men have been
anxious to get President Carter's personal
prestige intimately bound up in the negotiating
( See ISRAEL, Page 14)
-
I- 7- 09 Stadium
work to begin
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY The
traffic bottlenecks at Interstate
70 and Stadium Boulevard that
have irritated Columbia drivers
for years may be ended by a
proposed construction project
The Missouri Department of (
. Highways opened bids Friday on
three road improvement projects
' designed to alleviate the interse-ction's
traffic congestion
problems.
Plans call for widening the two
lanes of Stadium Boulevard to .
five lanes where it crosses Inter-state
70, and six lanes for the one- mi- le
( 1.6- kilomete- r) stretch '
between the interstate and
Broadway. Also planned is a
traffic signal at Ash Street and
Stadium Boulevard.
Construction Contractors Inc.
of' Shawnee, Kan., tentatively
. was awarded the construction
contract for its bid of S382,06.
He will view signing of treaty
Sadat invites Carter to Egypt
New York Times
CAIRO, Egypt Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Monday invited President Carter to visit Egypt for the
signing of a peace treaty with Israel after the up-coming
peace talks are concluded.
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negotiate with Israel, implying Sadat
that the terms were the best tbey could hope to get He
said that other Arab states should " share in these
steps" and not kt the Arab world backslide into
" frustration and collapse."
With Egypt on " me threshold of a complete change"
from war to peace, Sadat promised an infusion of
younger, more vigorous blood into the bureaucracy- ridde- n
government to speed up the difficult transition.
He spoke in particular of tapping the energies of the
" October generation" that had fought the October 1973
war with Israel.
Shortly after the speech, it was' announced that
Mustafa Khalfl, a 57- year-- old American- educate- d
engineer, had been asked to form a new government
Khalil headed the Arab Socialist Union, a political
umbrella organization that is disbanding to make way
for a new National Democratic Party loyal to Sadat
Khalil bad previously been speculated about as a
likely successor to the present prime minister, 60- year-- old
Mamdouh Salem.
In his remarks, Sadat made a particular effort to
defuse the allegations of his Arab critics that he had
struck, a bilateral deal with Israel. He repeatedly
described the package as " comprehensive'' and in-sisted
mat there were no secret agreements between
Egypt and Israel at Camp David.
Sadat acknowledged that the Arab claims to East
Jerusalem and the ultimate sovereignty of the oc-cupied
Jonian West Bank and Gaza Strip had not been
resolved. Both issues nave been cited as weaknesses in
the Camp David accords: But be observed that
Washington's disapproval of the Israeli annexation of
Arab Jerusalem coincided with Cairo's view. And he
said mat the five- ye- ar transition envisioned for Pales--
tinian self- ru- le on the West Bank and Gaza gave
residents a veto by referendum over the outcome.
The Egyptian president called the second
agreement on Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai
Peninsula applicable as well to the Golan Heights
seized from Syria in the 1967 war. He estimated that
the Sinai itself would be returned to Egypt in " a much
shorter time" than the two to three years envisioned at
Camp David.
" Sadat's remarks avoided even grudging tribute to
Israel for its part in the Camp David accords. And be
was contemptuous of the hard- lin- e Arab states, who he
said were callous to the sufferings of me Palestinians
in the Israeli- occupi- ed areas.
But he was effusive in his praise of President Carter,
who he predicted would be regarded by history " in the
forefront of leaders who changed the face of the world
to bring love instead of hate, and peace instead of
war."
If Carter accepted the invitation to come to Egypt,
Sadat told the 360- memb- er Peoples' Assembly, " I do
not doubt for a moment mat Egyptians will look for-ward
to this visit to express their feelings for a great
man." After the speech, Sadat informally told
reporters mat Carter had already agreed. The US.
president was here for a few hours last January when
( See SADAT, Page 14)
Inside today
Yanks beat Bosox
The New York Yankees' 1978
comeback saga continued when a
surprise three- ru- n homer by
Bucky Dent and a solo shot by
Reggie Jackson thrust them into
the American League cham-pionship
series with a 54 playoff
victory over the Boston Red Sox.
Details, Page 6.
Ill town
today
9 a4n. Boone County Court
meets, fifth floor, County- Cit- y
Building. , s.
7: 91 pan. " Bird Islands of the"-;-?
Norm AOantic'slide presenta- tio- n,
Windsor Auditorium,
Stephens College. .
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lecture, Ecumenical Center,-- W3& .
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71st Year No. 17 ( ittotl Morning! Ws Tnrstiay, October .?, I97M 14 laes 1 5 Cents
Legislators cool to M. U.' s budget request
By Rebecca Nappi
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The University's ap-propriations
request for the 1979- 198- D budget
reached Gov. Joseph Teasdale's desk Monday,
and the governor's office and legislative leaders
think the University is asking for too much.
The request, approved in August by the
University Board of Curators, asks for 15.9
percent more than last year. The University is
asking the state to increase by $ 21,853,118 the
amount it contributes to University coffers. The
University's overall budget calls for a
( 27,827,300 increase with $ 5,984,182 of that
money generated by non- sta- te funds, including a
controversial five percent student fee increase.
The total proposed budget for 1979- 198- 0 is
1235,207,818.
Gary Passmore, special assistant to the
governor, said the 15.9 percent increase is " sub-stantially
higher" than the expected increase in
general revenue next year. He said the
requested increase is " much higher than the
rate of inflation."
If the entire request were funded, " other vital
state services " would suffer, Passmore said.
Rep. Wayne Goode, chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, said the requested
increase is beyond what the general revenue
fund can handle. State revenue is expected to
increase 9 or 10 percent in 19791980, Goode said.
" It is difficult for me to see how we can have
an increase for any large state agency which is
in excess of the general revenue increase."
Rep. Steve Vossmeyer, D- S- t; Louis, whose
appropriations subcommittee reviews budgets
for colleges and universities, said the University
request is out of line this year.
" When inflation is the largest problem in the
country and with a taxpayer's revolt brewing, 15
percent seems a little much."
Vossmeyer was the prime mover last session
behind the $ 1.4 million in faculty improvement
funds the University received. The proposed
University budget calls for a 9.5 percent salary
and wage increase for faculty and staff. " I think
we treated them quite well last year. There's a
limit, however, and it sounds to me like that
amount ( a 15.9 percent overall increase) is
beyond that limit Vossmeyer said."
The Coordinating Board of Higher Education
must now review the appropriations request. It
will make a recommendation for Teasdale to
consider when he draws up the state's 1979- 198- 0
budget. The entire budget then will be submitted
to the General Assembly.
Guy Horton, director of University in-formation
services, said he had received no
feedback from legislators and did not anticipate
a budget cut to result from the review by the
Coordinating Board of Higher Education.
" We've still got a long way to go in this review
process and we'll be able to explain how the
budget meets the University's needs during
budget hearings," he said.
City Council OKs
Stephens Park
rezoning request
By Cameron Cohick
Misscarian staff writer
The City Council cleared the way
Monday night for at least some
development of Stephens Park.
By a 5-- 2 vote, the council approved
changing 14.3 acres ( 5.7 hectares) of
the area zoned for single- fami- ly use to
multi- famil- y residential and planned
commercial zoning. The council also
granted Stephens an amendment to its
master plan to allow commercial devel-opment
of 8.8 acres ( 3.5 hectares) near
the intersection of Broadway and
Business 63.
The rezoning decision, however, will
not go unchallenged by opponents of the
development, organized as Columbians
to Save Stephens Park.
On Sept 8, the group presented the ftS'SSSMins- -
rezoned. If valid, these petitions would
activate a city ordinance requiring the
votes of six council members for
passage.
After the rezoning passed with
negative votes from Third Ward Coun- cUwom- an
Diane Farish and Sixth Ward
Councilman Clyde Wilson, Mayor Les
Proctor, as chairman of the council,
had to make the decision whether to
accept the petitions' validity and
decided against them.
" The council is not a court and I am
not a judge," Procter said. " But the
chairman makes the decision, subject
to appeal. While the ordinance seems
clear to the layman, it has been clouded
by court cases." ' Proctor said that while the case
" might ultimately have to be decided in
the courts," he did not think the council
" should take any action to limit the
decision of the majority. I think five out
of seven is a healthy majority."
Karl Kruse, one opposition leader,
said after the meeting that the group
would challenge Proctor's ruling by
filing a suit in Circuit Court this week.
Kruse said the group would ask for
either a declaratory judgment or a
temporary restraining order.
The declaratory judgment would be a
ruling by the Circuit Court judge on
Proctor's decision. Attorney Tony
Vollers said the process probably would
take about six months. The judgment is
subject to appeal.
A temporary restraining order would
require a bond to be posted to com-pensate
Stephens if the opponents'
claim is not found legitimate. Kruse
said, " We may not have it ( the bond
money)."
Kruse said the opponents would meet
Tuesday with Vollers to decide which
course to take, adding that the group
probably would ask for a declaratory
judgment.
Of the five council members who
favored the rezoning, only new Fifth
Ward Councilman Ed Vaughan had
much to say in explaining his vote.
Vaughan said he had " a fair amount
of confidence" that Stephens would
control the architectural integrity of
the development He added that the
college easily could have sold the land
to a private developer, which would
have reduced the city's control over the
project
Wilson said be agreed that Stephens
has a right to develop its land or that
the college has no obligation to provide
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Eric Black, 1201 Paquin St., decorated his
wheelchair as a bulldozer to protest the rezoning
of the park land. Black said he wasn't surprised
by the council's decision to approve rezoning the
the city with a park. He said he also had
" no strong objections" to the
development proposed for the area, and
that it was " probably as good as any" if
the city is not able to keep it as a park.
But, on the negative side, Wilson
objected to being asked to make a
partial decision on " a total project"
referring to the developer's intention to
build the commercial and residential
portions of the development at the same
time.
Ms. Farish attacked the quick
Ed Media
park land. " When all the trees are gone," he said,
" all the bulldozers will be nice and fat, but all the
people will be dead."
progress of the Stephens project, and
commended the slow, deliberate
progress of the Flat Branch project.
" I feel very strongly that we need
more planning," she said. " We have to
be more careful in our planning
process, especially the closer you get to
the downtown area."
Stephens needed the rezonings and
the amendment approval to lease 33
acres ( 13.2 hectares) of the 40- ac- re ( 16- hecta- re)
Stephens Park area, bounded
roughly by Broadway, Business 63 and
William and Windsor streets, to Clayton
developer Joe Morrissey. The
remaining seven acres ( 2.8 hectares),
now maintained by the city as Lions- Stephe- ns
Park, will be left untouched
for at least a year to allow the city a
chance to buy it.
Morrissey would build indoor and out-door
tennis and racquetball courts, a
restaurant and office buildings on the
8.8- ac- re ( 3.5- hectar- e) tract approved
See APARTMENT, Page 14)
No decision
in selection
of manager
After three hours of deliberation
ending at midnight Monday, the City
Council postponed a decision on
selecting a new city manager.
Mayor Les Proctor, who said no vote
was taken, said council members may
make a second trip to Battle Creek,
Mich., and Coon Rapids, Minn., to
conduct further interviews with the
finalists and their associates.
Proctor, however, set no time for the
visits or for a vote.
Gordon Jaeger, city manager of
Battle Creek, reached by telephone late
Monday night, said, " I don't have the
foggiest idea as to what the decision is.
But if you hear anything, call me back
and let me know. Yours is the first call
I've received all night."
John Cottingham, city manager of
Coon Rapids, said he " really couldn't
tell" whether he was expecting to hear
anything from the council Monday
night.
The council's discussion of the two
candidates was conducted in a closed
session following the regular council
meeting.
The announcement of a new
manager, which Proctor earlier had
said would be made Monday, was ex-pected
to end months of speculation and
secrecy surrounding the selection
process that began last July.
Califano assails
tuition credits
WASHINGTON ( UPI) HEW
Secretary Joseph Califano Monday
condemned a college tuition tax credit
proposal before Congress as an unfair
break for the wealthy and recom-mended
a presidential veto of the
measure.
Site of peace talks symbol of Carter's involvement
By Terry Smith
New York Times
WASHINGTON The decision to convene the
next round of negotiations toward an Israeli- Egypti- an
peace treaty in Washington, rather
than in the Middle East, symbolizes the central
role the Carter administration is continuing to
play in the implementation of the Camp David
agreement.
Having broken the ice between Israel and
Egypt with 13 days of intensive, summit- lev- el
negotiations last month at his Maryland moun-tain
retreat, President Carter seems now to
have concluded that an extra American shove
will be necessary to complete the negotiation of
the first formal treaty between the two nations
after 30 years of war.
The White House confirmed Monday that both
Israel and Egypt have accepted Carter's invita-tion
to open the talks here Oct 12. Secretary of
State Cyrus R. Vance will head the American
delegation; Israel and Egypt will be represent-ed
by their foreign and defense ministers.
Originally, the talks were to be held at an
agreed site in the Middle East under United
Nations supervision. But even before they
Insight
began, Israel and Egypt got into a procedural
wrangle about the location.
Egypt proposed Ismalia, the city on the West
Bank of the Suez Canal where President Sadat
and Prime Minister Begin met last Christmas,
but Israel wanted to alternate the talks on a
weekly basis between there and Beersheba, the
Israeli town in the center of the Negev.
The Washington venue was a compromise put
forward by Alfred L. Atherton, President
Carter's special representative to the Middle
East, during meetings with both sides last
weekend. The idea was accepted readily, both
as a way to avoid an early deadlock and because
it suits the purposes of both sides.
The talks are expected to take several weeks
and American officials are under no illusions
that they will be easy. Despite President Car-ter's
repeated contention that " 95 percent" of
the obstacles to an Israeli- Egypti- an peace
agreement were resolved at Camp David,
several sensitive issues still have to be decided.
If all goes well, the White House indicated
Monday, President Carter will probably travel
to Egypt and Israel to participate in the treaty- signin- g
ceremony later this year. President
Sadat told an audience in Egypt Monday that
Carter had accepted his invitation for a visit
timed to coincide with the signing.
This kind of high profile American involve-ment
is something President Sadat and, to a
lesser extent Israeli Prime Minister Begin have
been seeking all along. Both men have been
anxious to get President Carter's personal
prestige intimately bound up in the negotiating
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State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY The
traffic bottlenecks at Interstate
70 and Stadium Boulevard that
have irritated Columbia drivers
for years may be ended by a
proposed construction project
The Missouri Department of (
. Highways opened bids Friday on
three road improvement projects
' designed to alleviate the interse-ction's
traffic congestion
problems.
Plans call for widening the two
lanes of Stadium Boulevard to .
five lanes where it crosses Inter-state
70, and six lanes for the one- mi- le
( 1.6- kilomete- r) stretch '
between the interstate and
Broadway. Also planned is a
traffic signal at Ash Street and
Stadium Boulevard.
Construction Contractors Inc.
of' Shawnee, Kan., tentatively
. was awarded the construction
contract for its bid of S382,06.
He will view signing of treaty
Sadat invites Carter to Egypt
New York Times
CAIRO, Egypt Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Monday invited President Carter to visit Egypt for the
signing of a peace treaty with Israel after the up-coming
peace talks are concluded.
Sadat issued the public in-- KBSSM .
vitation during a lengthy report flHHKipitt to the Egyptian nation on the tHHaPwlislB
results of the tripartite summit HRy.? r! l at Camp David last month. He HHlvr ' 1 told his parliament that " if it HB! llM had not been for Carter's HHKrPl! fl? 1 - wisdom; it would have been HHS& fflo& i impossible to put our feet on the HfJHMi
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three hours, Sadat urged Snnfl Jordan- and- ' Syria to take ad-- HHBjflR vantage of the framework HHpSrjMH ' produced at Camp David to wMSJflKiaMBB
negotiate with Israel, implying Sadat
that the terms were the best tbey could hope to get He
said that other Arab states should " share in these
steps" and not kt the Arab world backslide into
" frustration and collapse."
With Egypt on " me threshold of a complete change"
from war to peace, Sadat promised an infusion of
younger, more vigorous blood into the bureaucracy- ridde- n
government to speed up the difficult transition.
He spoke in particular of tapping the energies of the
" October generation" that had fought the October 1973
war with Israel.
Shortly after the speech, it was' announced that
Mustafa Khalfl, a 57- year-- old American- educate- d
engineer, had been asked to form a new government
Khalil headed the Arab Socialist Union, a political
umbrella organization that is disbanding to make way
for a new National Democratic Party loyal to Sadat
Khalil bad previously been speculated about as a
likely successor to the present prime minister, 60- year-- old
Mamdouh Salem.
In his remarks, Sadat made a particular effort to
defuse the allegations of his Arab critics that he had
struck, a bilateral deal with Israel. He repeatedly
described the package as " comprehensive'' and in-sisted
mat there were no secret agreements between
Egypt and Israel at Camp David.
Sadat acknowledged that the Arab claims to East
Jerusalem and the ultimate sovereignty of the oc-cupied
Jonian West Bank and Gaza Strip had not been
resolved. Both issues nave been cited as weaknesses in
the Camp David accords: But be observed that
Washington's disapproval of the Israeli annexation of
Arab Jerusalem coincided with Cairo's view. And he
said mat the five- ye- ar transition envisioned for Pales--
tinian self- ru- le on the West Bank and Gaza gave
residents a veto by referendum over the outcome.
The Egyptian president called the second
agreement on Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai
Peninsula applicable as well to the Golan Heights
seized from Syria in the 1967 war. He estimated that
the Sinai itself would be returned to Egypt in " a much
shorter time" than the two to three years envisioned at
Camp David.
" Sadat's remarks avoided even grudging tribute to
Israel for its part in the Camp David accords. And be
was contemptuous of the hard- lin- e Arab states, who he
said were callous to the sufferings of me Palestinians
in the Israeli- occupi- ed areas.
But he was effusive in his praise of President Carter,
who he predicted would be regarded by history " in the
forefront of leaders who changed the face of the world
to bring love instead of hate, and peace instead of
war."
If Carter accepted the invitation to come to Egypt,
Sadat told the 360- memb- er Peoples' Assembly, " I do
not doubt for a moment mat Egyptians will look for-ward
to this visit to express their feelings for a great
man." After the speech, Sadat informally told
reporters mat Carter had already agreed. The US.
president was here for a few hours last January when
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The New York Yankees' 1978
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surprise three- ru- n homer by
Bucky Dent and a solo shot by
Reggie Jackson thrust them into
the American League cham-pionship
series with a 54 playoff
victory over the Boston Red Sox.
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